DON LOUIS PERCEVAL (1908-1979)
Don Perceval was born in Woodford, Essex, England, but moved to Los Angeles with his family when quite young. He studied at the Chouinard Art School under Nelbert Chouinard and Frank Tolles Chamberlin and soon began making sketching trips into the nearby deserts. He completed the first of the many children's books he was to illustrate at age 19. After 1930, he return to England for study at the Heatherly Art School and the Royal College of Art. In the late 1930s he made a second trip to Europe; when WWII erupted, he enlisted in the Royal Navy and served for the duration. After the war, he returned to Altadena and taught at Chouinard and Pomona College. He was made a member of the Hopi tribe in 1952 and lived in Tucson, Arizona from 1954-59. He returned to Santa Barbara in 1959, where he remained until 1979. His forte was desert and western subjects and his works reflect the influence of his association with Maynard Dixon. See Ainsworth, Painters of the Desert.
GREEN VALLEY -- ARIZONA
Oil on canvas, 16 x 20"
Signed lower right: Don Perceval.
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